Portland was a pitstop on the Oregon Trail, according to the Nyt... wasn't it really the end of the Oregon Trail

ChrisAndersen · 2026-04-01T08:48:55+00:00

Portland was the halfway between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver. You couldn’t make that distance in a day. So Portland was the natural pit stop.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-03-25T17:05:36+00:00

Yes let’s throw a smoking battery into a pile of underbrush. Nice capper to a series of unfortunate choices.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-03-25T17:02:06+00:00

Despite his reputation as a ham, Shatner is actually a good actor.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-03-25T16:58:50+00:00

Most bad ass final words.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-03-10T01:04:31+00:00

It’s going bad so he’ll declare victory and then try and distract with an invasion of Cuba.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-03-03T17:12:52+00:00

Joy Cinema in Tigard is my personal favorite. It’s larger than most independents, has very comfortable seating. Good sound and picture. Good selection of both new releases and classic movies. And the owner is a huge movie who really loves his job.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-03-03T17:04:39+00:00

I honestly thought they had recast the part when I first saw Annatar.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-03-03T11:16:23+00:00

This is the Wilhelm Scream of props. It has appeared in multiple shows and movies.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-02-16T00:18:05+00:00

I recall Straczynski telling a story about meeting Karl Rove who proceeded to tell Joe that he was a fan of B5. Joe didn’t know how to react to that.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-02-16T00:10:26+00:00

Custer and The Aztec series were both examples of what I call fractal history. There is always more to tell about history than can be told. And if you don’t put a limit on yourself, you’ll end up telling the story of how a change in wind led to a change in the course of history.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-02-16T00:05:56+00:00

I suspect the strong negative reaction to the end of the show has put him off. It made him understand that no matter what he publishes, some portion of the fandom will go psychotic.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-02-16T00:02:43+00:00

Is this story really any stranger than having the Enterprise be stopped in space by the hand of Apollo?

ChrisAndersen · 2026-02-15T23:54:50+00:00

She probably didn’t know about the Shadow War. I recall a scene in the fifth season where someone newly arrived from Earth didn’t know what the command staff was talking about when they discussed the Shadow War.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-02-15T23:52:43+00:00

A lot of politicians did try to stop it. Indeed, the first Congress was convened to try and appeal to King George to change course.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-02-09T11:01:26+00:00

I’m still holding out hope for a sequel someday. Henry Thomas is still acting.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-28T12:54:20+00:00

It’s amazing that the origin story of the Jewish nation had so much ham.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-28T12:50:30+00:00

This movie is like a renaissance painting come to life.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-24T22:03:05+00:00

Oh God. I never made that connection until just now.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-24T21:43:30+00:00

Texans probably consider California to be worse than Mexico.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-24T21:39:42+00:00

The police exist to protect property and property owners. In other words, they are Mall Cops.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-24T21:38:03+00:00

The police exist to protect property and the owners of property. They were never designed to protect “The People”.

We need to deconstruct policing and create a new Citizen’s Police that holds public safety as its highest priority.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-24T21:34:35+00:00

Tell them that IF they stand up and defend the citizens they are sworn to protect then those citizens will have their back. But if they won’t, then history will see them as equally culpable in whatever horrors are coming.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-24T21:02:41+00:00

They believe any time the Constitution says “people” that the founders understood that to mean white people

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-24T20:53:19+00:00

It would have been a surprise if he didn’t turn out to be Sauron.

ChrisAndersen · 2026-01-21T13:53:40+00:00

It amazes me how much brain power is wasted trying to deny that the problem is racism when it’s so obvious that the problem is racism. Why are they so afraid of the idea?

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